Re: Modified load-path proposal

[Neil Jerram]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

>   The mechanism I'm proposing is a bit more flexible than that, but the
>   basic idea in both cases is that the core distribution (either Emacs
>   or Guile) has a view on where it wants add-on packages to be installed
>   (and hence which may be different from the add-on package's $prefix).
>
> I think this is the crux of the disagreement.

Yes, I agree (that this is the crux), but it's not in our control to
force package authors to abide by this, even if we agreed to adopt
this as policy.

> So I'd like the core distribution to at least
> be neutral on what the 'right' way is, and explain both
> in-guile's-prefix and in-the-prefix-that-was-given methods.

I'm happy with that.

    Neil